 Latent Tuberculosis
"Latent Tuberculosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The dormant form of TUBERCULOSIS where the person shows no obvious symptoms and no sign of the causative agent (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) in the SPUTUM despite being positive for tuberculosis infection skin test.
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D055985
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.410.040.552.846.122
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| Concept/Terms |
Latent Tuberculosis- Latent Tuberculosis
- Latent Tuberculoses
- Tuberculoses, Latent
- Tuberculosis, Latent
- Latent Tuberculosis Infection
- Infection, Latent Tuberculosis
- Infections, Latent Tuberculosis
- Latent Tuberculosis Infections
- Tuberculosis Infection, Latent
- Tuberculosis Infections, Latent
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| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Latent Tuberculosis" by people in Profiles.
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Yang Q, Xu Q, Chen Q, Li J, Zhang M, Cai Y, Liu H, Zhou Y, Deng G, Deng Q, Zhou B, Kornfeld H, Chen X. Discriminating Active Tuberculosis from Latent Tuberculosis Infection by flow cytometric measurement of CD161-expressing T cells. Sci Rep. 2015 Dec 08; 5:17918.
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Wong SH, Ip M, Tang W, Lin Z, Kee C, Hung E, Lui G, Lee N, Chan FK, Wu JC, Sung JJ, Ng SC. Performance of interferon-gamma release assay for tuberculosis screening in inflammatory bowel disease patients. Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2014 Nov; 20(11):2067-72.
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Yang Q, Cai Y, Zhao W, Wu F, Zhang M, Luo K, Zhang Y, Liu H, Zhou B, Kornfeld H, Chen X. IP-10 and MIG are compartmentalized at the site of disease during pleural and meningeal tuberculosis and are decreased after antituberculosis treatment. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2014 Dec; 21(12):1635-44.
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Bumbacea D, Arend SM, Eyuboglu F, Fishman JA, Goletti D, Ison MG, Jones CE, Kampmann B, Kotton CN, Lange C, Ljungman P, Milburn H, Morris MI, Muller E, Muñoz P, Nellore A, Rieder HL, Sester U, Theodoropoulos N, Wagner D, Sester M. The risk of tuberculosis in transplant candidates and recipients: a TBNET consensus statement. Eur Respir J. 2012 Oct; 40(4):990-1013.
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